Re: Understanding my recurrent network connectivity problems
On Fri, 25 Jun 2010 15:53:09 -0400
vr <debian-user@iotk.net> wrote:
> On 6/25/2010 3:27 PM, Merciadri Luca wrote:
> > Might be that, but how could my ISP guess that I'm using a router?
> >
>
> The first few characters of a MAC address are registered to a company.
True, but many companies make both routers and regular NICs. Is there
any way to tell from the MAC whether we're dealing with, say, a Linksys
router as opposed to one of their NICs?
Celejar
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